George Catlin, Indian Encampment, Comanche (or Kiowa) Dressing Skins, Red River, 1846-1848, oil on canvas, 19 5⁄8 x 27 1⁄2 in. (49.7 x 70.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.597
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Indian Encampment, Comanche (or Kiowa) Dressing Skins, Red River
- Artist
- Date
- 1846-1848
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 19 5⁄8 x 27 1⁄2 in. (49.7 x 70.0 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Western
- Landscape — Texas
- Figure group
- Architecture Exterior — domestic — teepee
- Landscape — river — Red River
- Indian — Comanche
- Object Number
- 1985.66.597
Artwork Description
“These people, living in a country where buffaloes are abundant, make their wigwams more easily of their skins, than of anything else; and with them find greater facilities of moving about, as circumstances often require; when they drag them upon the poles attached to their horses, and erect them again with little trouble in their new residence.” George Catlin executed this work in Paris between 1846 and 1848. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 42, 1841; reprint 1973)
